He then turned the gun, took aim and fired a second bullet into the head of Carla McClain, 31, Hancock says. The shootings took place on Thanksgiving Day in 1984.

But Garfield says his client, charged with two counts of first-degree murder, fired the pistol in self-defense after Aunapu pointed a shotgun at him.

``My client is not a murderer in any way, shape or form,`` he told the jury on Wednesday. ``Try to imagine a 12-gauge Winchester shotgun in your face and think how you would feel. It was a reflex.``

Aunapu tended bar at his family`s restaurant and McClain, the second victim, was a patron. The fighting broke out after Aunapu refused to let Saladrigas and his friends in for a late drink.

Garfield said Aunapu`s autopsy showed he was drunk and on cocaine, and that that might have made him act ``hyper`` as he pointed the shotgun at Saladrigas. He said that after Saladrigas fired the pistol at Aunapu, the next shot accidentally hit McClain.

But Hancock says Aunapu couldn`t have been pointing a gun, considering the path the bullet took through his body. And he says Saladrigas would have had to move his gun over and fire at McClain, so it couldn`t have been an accident.